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Schizandra sp. (?) (F 288) is by no means certain, and I wondered at 
first if it might not be an Akebia. It is a very dark and leathery- 
foliaged elegant climber, haunting cool rocks here and there in 
the Siku gorge and the coppice of Da-hai-go (always a sporadic 
occurrence), which becomes notable in September-November 
for its fruits, hanging in long dense clusters, like spathes of ' Lords 
and Ladies ' tied on to an Akebia-bush by fine threads, and gone 
of a beautiful bloomy coral-scarlet. 
Sedum. — Of these the greater majority here are, as elsewhere, dull and 
uninteresting plants. Sedum Farreri sp. nov. (F 238), however, 
is a prettyish little thing, from the topmost bare screes of the Min 
S'an and Thundercrown, being like a small and dainty S. rhodan- 
thum of 3-4 inches, with the fine-leaved shoots each ending in a 
fluffy head of white sodden-looking flowers in August. I cannot 
be certain if this will be to be distributed, as I cannot decide 
whether it is identical with F 322, or whether this number covers 
a cousin from similar sites and heights, still more like 5. 
rhodanthum, with small, dull, reddish flowers on stems an inch or 
two taller, and more freely produced, than in the last. 
Sedum sp. (F 336), however, if really Sedum and not Umbilicus, is a 
truly beautiful thing. It seems special to very hot stony banks 
about Siku, and in the little town itself grows in such abundance 
on every roof that the groove between each ridge of tiles becomes 
a solid channel of its lovely blue-pink metallic glaucous foliage, 
fat and cylindric, but in colour like a bedding Echeveria's, 
from which in late August profusely arise dense fox-brush 
spikes of 6-10 inches, breaking into serried pyramids of little 
coldly-white or pinkly-flushing stars. The flowered crown of 
this expires in seeding, but the mass of the plant continues 
unperturbed, as in Saxifraga Cotyledon, and it ought, in hot, dry 
places, pebbly and parching and poor, to introduce quite a new 
charm into our gardens, unaccustomed to such a style of beauty 
in Sedum. 
Senecio. — Of these many large and some magnificent species have 
been introduced of late years, and do not need to be re-collected. 
5. tanguticus, all over the Border, is as pervasive a pest as it 
promises to be in the garden ; and polymorphic but always 
resplendent 5. clivorum (if so indeed it be) occurs at intervals 
all the way from Siku at least as far north as Karta Pu. 
Otherwise nearly all are too-well-known weeds. 
Senecio sp. (F 299) , however, is (I believe) a new and most important 
species. Though a very closely allied but inferior thing is found 
in the higher reaches of the Tibetan becks about Ardjeri &c, 
true F 299 has been seen only in the Satanee range, scantily in 
one pool of the great mountain mass, and abundantly in the 
stream-beds high up above Satanee itself, in the ghyll-bottoms 
whose coppiced slopes are dotted with Rhododendron F 63. 
Here, actually in the running water and amid the stones of the 
